On August 13, 1937, the Japanese Marines took advantage of the "Hongqiao Airport Incident" to launch an attack on the Chinese garrison in Shanghai, and the Chinese army immediately rose up to resist, and the Battle of Songhu officially broke out. This campaign also opened the prelude to the all-out war of resistance.
After the start of the war, due to the huge superiority of the Japanese army in equipment, the resistance of the Chinese defenders was very arduous, but with the unanimous support of the people of the whole country, the defenders did their best to fight to the death, and did not retreat, giving the Japanese army a heavy blow. For a time, the war situation in the Songhu area was very fierce.
At this time, in addition to the Chinese defenders and the Japanese invading Japanese army in the Shanghai area, there were also a small number of British, French, and American troops stationed in the concession, mainly responsible for protecting the safety of their own overseas Chinese. As a third party, these armies remained neutral in the Battle of Songhu, and the Japanese army rarely provoked them.
On August 26, 1937, the British Embassy in China, Cole, together with military attaches, secretaries and others, set off from Nanjing and drove to Shanghai in two cars. As they marched near Wuxi, there was a buzzing sound of planes overhead, and two Japanese planes flew over the convoy. Cole and others did not pay much attention to this, because the British flag was planted on the front of the car, and under normal circumstances, the Japanese plane would not make too much move.
This time, however, it was unusual for two Japanese planes to hover a little over the convoy, and uncharacteristically, ignoring the British flag markings on the cars and diving straight down.
Cole and the others were taken aback and ordered the car to hide, trying to find a place to hide. Unexpectedly, the two Japanese planes chased after each other, dropping bombs and strafing british cars continuously until they blew the car over. Cole was shot in the liver, his back bone was also broken, he was seriously injured, and was rushed to the hospital for rescue.
Japan's brazen attack on the convoy of neutral ambassadors shocked the world and caused a strong international reaction. Britain, the United States, France and other countries have lashed out at Japan's move and lodged diplomatic protests, demanding that Japan admit its mistakes and apologize to ensure that such incidents will not happen again. The Japanese argued that the flag on the British car was too small for the pilot to recognize and injured the clouds by mistake, and finally failed.
What is not known is that after learning that the British car was bombed, the most shocking thing was not the Western countries, but Chiang Kai-shek. Originally, in order to boost the morale of the front, Jiang was ready to personally inspect Shanghai.
Since air supremacy was in the hands of the Japanese army, for the sake of safety along the way, Jiang listened to Bai Chongxi's advice and planned to take Kouer's car to Shanghai. This confidential decision was known only to a few high-ranking generals and confidential personnel present. However, when the British convoy departed, Jiang changed his plan due to a temporary incident and could not set off with Cole, but unexpectedly escaped this fate.
After hearing that Cole was being chased by the Japanese plane and seriously injured, Jiang couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. This was clearly a planned leak, and the Japanese side learned of the intelligence in advance, and the Japanese plane disregarded the international influence and wantonly bombed the British convoy, specifically to bomb him. In this regard, Jiang was furious after being afraid, and urgently summoned Dai Kasa of the Military Command Bureau and Gu Zhenglun, commander of the Nanjing Garrison, to strictly order the case to be investigated within a month and severely punished.
After carefully analyzing the case, Dai Kasa and Gu Zhenglun also broke out in a cold sweat and decided that there must be internal traitors around Jiang, and if they were not eliminated as soon as possible, the overall situation of the War of Resistance would be in danger. They did not dare to be idle, and immediately organized the elite personnel of the military command and the security command to participate in solving the case. Soon after, he focused his doubts on Huang Jun, the confidential secretary of the Executive Yuan, through two things.
First, not long ago, the Top Military Council of the Kuomintang decided to blockade the jiangyin fortress in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in order to intercept Japanese warships and merchant ships that were then in the ports of Nanjing, Jiujiang, Wuhan, Yichang and Chongqing in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. This important national defense secret was not known to anyone except Huang Jun, the top military commander of the Central Military Commission and confidential secretary who served as a recorder.
However, just as this order was given to the troops, and just before the military operation to blockade the Jiangyin fortress was about to be carried out, more than twenty Japanese warships and merchant ships in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River suddenly accelerated in a very short period of time and rushed across the Jiangyin River to escape. The Chinese military plan to blockade the jiangyin fortress was thus foiled. Obviously, the Japanese side has received information in advance.
The second thing happened, one day shortly after the British ambassador was bombed, Chiang was giving spiritual lectures to teachers and students at the "Premier's Memorial Week" held at the Central Military Academy. Suddenly, the general duty officer announced to the meeting that two suspects had been found mixed into the military academy, and the military police were searching, hoping that everyone would be more vigilant.
After some searching, two suspects were found, but they fled in a special car of the Executive Yuan in a hurry. After checking the registered vehicle form at the entrance of the school, it was found that the owner of the special car was Huang Jun.
Through these two major cases, Dai Kasa and Gu Zhenglun determined that Huang Jun had major suspicions, and the first big traitor in the War of Resistance began to surface. The military command department immediately arranged personnel to closely follow up and reconnoiter Huang Jun, and finally discovered the fact that Huang Jun's father and son delivered intelligence to the Japanese consulate.
Immediately, the Military Command and the Security Command set up a trap and arrested Huang Jun's father and son and related suspects in one fell swoop. Soon after, Huang Jun's father and son, two national scum known as the "first traitors of the War of Resistance", were executed by shooting, ending their shameful lives.
References: Monthly Journal of Literature and History, Nanjing Japanese Espionage Case, History of Secret Agent Activities of Military Unification